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Human Furniture Is a Pain in the Tail
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People Sit on Chairs — except when those chairs are built for someone else's anatomy. This is when one species has trouble with furniture made for another species or size due to differences in anatomy, size, or culture. A common example would be a Winged Humanoid or Lizard Folk (with their big wings and/or long tails) having trouble sitting properly in chairs built for human use — or, for that matter, vice versa! This trope also covers when furniture has been visibly modified/designed for lifeforms with nonhuman bodies, and furniture that is made for human bodies—but bodies of abnormal size or shape (see the Real Life section). Sister Trope to Operator Incompatibility and Appropriate Animal Attire. Sometimes combined with Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting. For a specific case of how fantastic creatures with different anatomy can use human furniture, compare and contrast Mermaid in a Wheelchair. |
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The Far Side: In one strip, two stegosaurs are leaving another dinosaur couple, the (giant but recognizeably designed-for-humans) chair cushions still embedded on their back plates and spikes, with the wife telling her husband that's the last time said couple visits. | |
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The chairs in the eponymous train of Dinosaur Train don't accommodate the dinosaur's tails, but the issue is never touched upon. | |
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Invoked in the last book of the Mage Storms trilogy: two characters realize an ancient desk was used by a hertasi (a lizard-like creature) because the stool next to it was backless and had a cutout to accommodate a tail. | |
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A Centaur's Life: The many fantasy races of the series, most of which consider themselves human, have many different ergonomic needs met by thorough Worldbuilding. Centaurs wear specialized shoes and rest their abdomens on benches. People whose ears are at the tops of their heads wear glasses like these◊. Clothes with adjustable tail holes are standard, though angels are tailless. All public and recently constructed buildings are supposed to accommodate the size and weight of centaurs, though older apartment structures are exempt. In Japan at least it's considered discrimination for public stores to not account for and accommodate different species. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: The Enterprise crew has at one point to commandeer an Insectoid Xindi ship. Besides having trouble with the controls, which are rather alien, they also mention how uncomfortable the seats are. | |
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Kevin & Kell sometimes does the joke about how common items from every day life have to be designed for all the Loads and Loads of Animal Species. | |
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The Humanx Commonwealth: The ant-like Insectoid Alien Thranx use form-fitted couches and saddle-like chairs that they can rest their thorax and abdomen on. In the First Contact prequels, they're completely flummoxed by human chairs. | |
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In Return of the Jedi, Chewbacca growls at the seats in the Imperial shuttle, and Han responds, "I don't think the Empire had wookies in mind when they designed her, Chewie." | |
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Sholan Alliance features an inversion. Sholans often use bowl shaped chairs which Carrie finds slightly difficult to use due to her smaller size. Also, later in the series, a visit to a popular restaurant involves a small stack of cushions. | |
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Dinotopia has pictures of furniture built for dinosaurs. Apart from sometimes being much bigger than human furniture, it tends to take the form of cushioned benches to support the dinosaur's midsection rather than chairs. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim deals with this...by ignoring it. Tails of Argonians and Khajiit clip though any chair they sit on and though any armour they wear. Curiously they do have the correct pose/animation for sitting on the ground without clipping. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei's bed breaks when she suddenly gets on it while in her giant red panda form. | |
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On Dinosaucers, the control seats on the various spacecraft and bases were designed with a shoulder-height backrest supported on only one side, leaving room for the operator's tail to slide in. | |
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Turnabout Storm: Phoenix barely gets any sleep during his first night in Equestria thanks to how small pony beds are. | |
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There are a number of chapters in Monster Musume that revolve around the eponymous monster girls dealing with the fact that the world hasn't quite adjusted to fit their physiques yet. Centorea and Rachnera, a centaur and arachne respectively, probably get this the most, as they're both far too large to use normal human furniture, while the other girls can usually adjust better. | |
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The Lizards in World War have trouble sitting on human chairs that don't accommodate their tails. | |
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Inverted and played seriously in Earthdawn. The blood elves have thorns growing from all over their bodies; all the things they manufacture are enchanted to adapt, opening and closing holes as needed, but foreign furniture... suffers. | |
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In Monsters, Inc., Sulley's chair has a hole in the back of it to fit his tail. | |
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures has centaur-like Matilda living in a town populated mostly by bipeds. How she sits comfortably when she goes out isn't addressed, but we do see that she has a huge bed-sized couch, which makes Dan wonder what her bed looks like. | |
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X-Wing Series: In Rogue Squadron, the first book of the series, Wedge becomes apprehensive when he learns that his Verpine crew chief has "tinkered" with his brand new starfighter, as he remembers horror stories from other human pilots of ships optimized for Verpine ergonomics. His X-Wing turns out to be fine, however. The novel series as a whole tends to Hand Wave how Twi'lek and other nonhuman pilots can fit their appendages inside flight helmets. (Or, in one of the Wraith Squadron novels, into the helmet of stolen Stormtrooper armor.) |
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Indirectly touched on in Zootopia, where dozens of anthropomorphic animal species of varying sizes and builds live in the same city. Different sections of the city are designed with different environments and different scales of buildings/furniture depending on the size of the intended user. At one point, the rabbit main character falls into a toilet designed for larger creatures such as bears; later, she exploits this by making an escape through a similarly large toilet. | |
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Marc Miller's Traveller supplement Aliens Archive. The following alien species were specfically noted as having problems with human furniture due to their anatomies: Asym, Controlled, Denaar, Hana Saka, Newts and Tekundu (when engorged after drinking lots of water). | |
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In Shadow Operations, a Play-by-Email game based in the Star Trek universe, Ryramorl Ra'yral has difficulty sitting in most Starfleet chairs due to having a thick tail. Reepchip Charatetet must stand in most chairs as he is only 2'9" tall—completely average for his race. | |
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In Chorus Skating, the turtle wizard Clothahump uses a chair with a deeply-concave back, built to fit neatly around his shell. | |
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In Onward, Colt Bronco, a centaur, is capable of driving a police car. | |
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At one point in the Animorphs series, the heroes steal a Yeerk fighter with the intent of blowing the invasion's cover by landing it in Washington, D.C. The Token Nonhuman Ax mans the gunner's "chair", which is actually more of a long stool since it's built for the centipede-like Taxxons. It fits Ax better than normal chairs since his species, the Andalites, are basically centaurs. Andalite ships are very uncomfortable for human passengers due to their lack of seating at all. | |
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My Hero Academia: Mashirao Ojiro's quirk Tail means he has a lot of difficulty with chairs and such, since the people who designed most chairs didn't plan on people with tails sitting in them. He tends to like chairs with spaces in the back (like metal folding chairs), since he can stick his tail through the hole. The Detnerat company's purpose is custom making various appliances for people whose quirks stop them from using mass produced ones. For example, one of their commercials includes a man whose quirk essentially makes him a bipedal walrus. |
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In Futurama, a family of newly-arrived alien immigrants sets up a pizza parlor near Planet Express. The mother expresses concern about the U-shaped chairs they're using, since she heard that human knees bend down instead of up. The father assures her that if anyone complains, he can bend their legs the other way for free. | |
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After Alexis has become a drider in Spinnerette, she complains about human-sized doors. | |
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In the Garrett, P.I. series, Garrett has a special chair made for his ratgirl apprentice, Pular Singe, who has a long tail. | |
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There's an example of humans running into this in Forbidden Planet, where Morbius and the captain have difficulty with devices designed for the Krell, the aliens who once lived on the planet. Notably, it looks like their craniums were much wider. | |
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The Croaking: since the setting is populated by humanoids with bird-wings , nearly all chairs have very slim backrests, only enough to lean your spine against them, so that the wings don't get squashed between a body and a backrest. | |
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In The Dark Crystal, the wisest Mystic is seen resting on a "bed" configured for his low-slung, long-tailed form, complete with a small wooden platform for his head. | |
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Shadowrun: Trolls and dwarves are significantly larger and significantly shorter than other metatypes, respectively. Consequently, while elves and orcs can reasonably use cars or guns that are sized for human use, trolls and dwarves must purchase equipment specifically sized for their metatype, which is more expensive. And they've got it easy compared to people who've been mutated by SURGE events, which can result in all sorts of different physiological changes like a tail, hooves, extra limbs, or sharp spines growing out of their skin that require custom furniture, clothing, and equipment. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace has to use a car in her three-tailed form. She tries various ways of fitting into the seat until ending up "sitting" upside down, then she gives up and chooses to use the back seat. Another example shows Ellen learning something from her "Second Life": |
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Most furniture in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic differs significantly from furniture designed for humans, allowing ponies to sit comfortably; this includes the use of cushions and straw piles as chairs and classroom desks with tilted seats. The one exception where this trope is Played Straight is when Lyra Heartstrings sits awkwardly on her haunches on a park bench, which instantly made her go memetic with a Fanon obsession with humans, while some fans pondered why such benches would even exist in Equestria. | |
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When Adrian buys a new car in A&H Club, one of the first thing she checks is if the tail-hole in the driver's seat is wide enough to accomodate a kangaroo tail. | |
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In the Heechee Saga; the chairs on the Heechee ships abandoned at Gateway asteroid all have V-shaped seats which are incredibly uncomfortable. Until humanity finally manages to meet the Heechee (halfway through the series), speculation runs rampant as to what Heechee hindquarters actually look like. | |
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The seat in the space ship in Flight of the Navigator originally didn't fit the young male protagonist, and the ship had to make adjustments. | |
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In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, an Enterprise crewmember is suspected of murdering Klingon Chancellor Gorkon because of gravity boots found in his locker... and then immediately cleared, because the boots are designed for human feet and his feet are short, webbed, and nearly circular in shape. | |
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Babylon 5 has an example where humans run into this trope, when Sheridan and Ivanova try to sleep on a tilted Minbari bed. | |
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, a Yoshi in the Yoshi Theater says that the chairs look comfy but he can't sit in them because his tail gets in the way. However, the ending and official art does show Yoshis sitting in the theater seats. | |
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